…, lateral to and beneath it) are found numerous chondrocytoid fibrocytes, and deep to them may be perichondral sclerosis and signs of necrosis (karyolysis) of cartilage. In summary, chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis is neither a primary disease of…

…atous changes may be present secondarily 11. Multinucleate fibrocytes in a thickened papillary dermis often 11. No multinucleate fibrocytes usually 12. Edema of the papillary dermis common 12. No edema of the papillary dermis 13. No wiry bundl…

…cells are thickened and brightly eosinophilic; the number of fibrocytes often is decreased 10. Collagen bundles that surround the neoplastic cells usually are fibrillar and amphophilic; the number of fibrocytes is increased 11. No elastotic materi…

…us, elastic fibers may be normal in number or decreased. When fibrocytes are increased in such a nevus, they may assume various shapes, e.g., oval, spindle, and dendritic, and they may be multinucleate. A remarkable feature of nuclei of fibrocytes in…

…preserved 4. Decrease in number of oval and spindle-shaped fibrocytes; no pleomorphism of them 4. Slight increase in number of stellate-shaped fibrocytes; some of them with pleomorphic nuclei 5. Elastic fibers normal in number and appearance; no…

…companied by an increased number of plump and stellate-shaped fibrocytes, some of which are binucleate and multinucleate. In addition to the component follicular of the hamartoma, constituents angiofibromatous are present below an epidermis, the basa…

…panniculitis, septal + 10.38.3B: Increased number of thin fibrocytes, coarse bundles of collagen oriented parallel to the skin surface, and histiocytes, some of them multinucleate, around a hair = Scar and foreign body reaction to hair The presen…

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